Fellow organiser Jason Nicholls was equally impressed with how the celebrations went and said: “We decided all those returning to the club would leave with a horseshoe from the local racing stables with a good luck message from the club.

“Hopefully this little piece of Findon would go with them wherever they now live and bring them special memories of our small village cricket club in the heart of the South Downs.”

A week previous, Findon’s current squad dressed as Victorians, just as the club founders did way back in the 19th century.

The current team used bats borrowed from the local Sussex Cricket Museum to recreate the scene.